Yuck. A Chicago auction house has Elvis death memorabilia on the block—including the toe tag that was placed on his corpse. The house is pulling the embalming tools because there is a dispute over whether they are truly the instruments used in Elvis’s embalming. Did we say yuck?

And speaking of yuck, a cat that appeared in the credits of “Coronation Street,” a popular British soap opera, had out-auditioned 5,000 other felines. Frisky was seen ready to pounce on pigeons and was popular enough that someone spent $1,200 to get his ashes. The cat had run out of its nine lives 10 years ago.

Hooray. Elvis news that’s not yucky. The Knabe grand piano Presley refinished in white with gold trim is up for sale. The piano has a great provenance. Its keys were tickled by W. C. Handy, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Cab Calloway and Jerry Lee Lewis. The instrument is part of an August 14 Heritage auction that is being called the “ultimate Elvis auction.” Until the next one, of course.

Okay, an Edvard Munch painting of a sultry lady going for $2 million is one thing. A lady’s crocodile bag going for $65,000, well, that is another matter. What would make some Russian cough up that much? It being a “Birken” manufactured by Hermes may have something to do with it.

It took six months of expert examination to establish that the 65 negatives bought for $45 at a yard sale are worth $200 million. The Ansel Adams negatives came from early in his career and were believed to have been destroyed in a Yosemite National Park fire. Rick Norsigian, a construction worker, bargained the seller down to $45 in 2000 with no idea of their value. He just liked Yosemite pictures. Wonder if he quit his day job yet. To the credit of Norsigian, he has tried to find the yard-sale seller to share in the wealth.